Melaina Tempestrum

From the shadows will come sight at the cost of a blight… chosen only one of four, the weaver needs no more. So proclaimed the prophecy given to young Melaina’s family. Prophecies were common in the cult of The Fate Weaver where she was raised, but this one was particularly grim. A family with four children… but the Kami only needed one.

When the first brother passed from childhood illness, it was easy enough to imagine a coincidence.

But when a freak accident took the second… the signs became harder to ignore. The writing written on every wall of every room, inescapable, unavoidable. You cannot fight fate…

But Melaina did not want to die. The prophecy only called for one and there was only one way to ensure she survived. Her final little brother, Wesley… The one who always admired her and trusted her to keep him safe…

She didn’t want to die… but one of them had to. Fate commanded it.

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The Kami have a way of sharpening people down to their most brutal form. The purpose of an eye is to see, not feel. The Fate Weaver had no use for feelings. Which makes it all the more astounding that Alexander Tempestrum saw something left in Oci worthy of saving… Even when nothing but the dregs of the Melaina remained, he never gave up on her. Thanks to his many chances, she escaped the web of fate.